Latin America

Llanos –Plains in Colombia and Venezuela used for farming and livestock grazing

Cerrado –Plains of Brazil used for farming

Pampas –Plains in Argentina and Uruguay with grasslands and rich soil used for cattle grazing and growing wheat

Rivers Orinoco —runs through the northern part of S. America, mainly in Venezuela Amazon —runs from the Andes Mountains in the west to the Atlantic Ocean in the east Parana —runs from the highlands of S. Brazil south through Paraguay and Argentina

Slash-and-burn— technique used by native people to clear the fields. Trees, brush, and grasses are cut and burned to clear and area of vegetation. –The practice today has become destructive in some cases and is damaging the rain forest

Terraced Farming -technique for growing crops on a hillside or mountain slope.

Panama Canal 48 miles across the Panama isthmus Took from to build Cut the distance ships had to travel to get from the Pacific to the Atlantic from 13,000 miles to 5,200 miles. Figured prominently in the war and trade plans of industrialized countries.

Panama Canal See attached videos (eduphoria)